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SIXTEEN PAOES
MEDFORP. - OREGON", FRIDAY, NOVEMBER li.
NO. 19G
FREE MASON
LODGES IN
Soldiers Occupy the Masonic
Lodges in Rome and Sur
round Socialist Headquar
ters Excitement Runs
High As Details of Plot
Against Mussolini Published
ROME, Nov. 6. (A. P.) That
the plot to assassinate Premier
Mussolini was only a detail of a
general conspiracy designed not
only to suppress the fascist chief
and the present government, but
to overthrow the Savoy dynasty
and declare an Italian republic is
the statement made in a detailed
report published today by the
Epoca. The newspaper, which is
usually well informed In matters
of the. highest political import
ance, does not reveal the source
of its information.
ROME, Nov. G. (A. P.) Trtiops
with bristling bayonets today were
cordoning headquarters of the social
ist party and that of the Free Masons
In the Justinian palace. It Is asserted
a plot to assassinate Premier Musso
lini as he Btood on the balcony of the
Chigi palace during the celebration of
the seventh anniversary of Italy's vic
tory over Austria was fomented in
the Justinian palace.
Soldiers were ' also guarding other
Kree ' Mason and socialist gathering
places, the offices of newspapers op
posed to the fascist government and
various centers which possibly might
be nttackeH by fascist!, who are en
raged over the plan to shoot the pre
mier from a wludow as he reviewed
the passing troops., ,
Last evening crowds gathered in
the public squares cheered Mussolini,
burned , opposition newspapers' .iunl
sang fascist party hymns. ,
The premier appeared oh his bal
cony and addressed the people below,
lie Impressed upon them the neces
sity for the maintenance of order and
demanded that tuey obey. He ex
acted a pledge that there should he
no disorder or violence.
Tito Francesco Zunllioni, former
unitarian socialist deputy, who It is
asserted, was to have fired the shot
:o kill Mussolini; Senor Quaglia. edi
tor of II Popolo, and General Lutet
Cappelo, were held in prison today.
Excitement Runs High.
Excitement was still at a high pitch
today as additional details of the
widespread ramifications of the assas
sination plot came to light. Order,
however, reigned throughout the en
tire country.
Messaggero, semi-official news
paper, prints a detailed report de
signed to prove that the plot was
hatched in France by anil fnscisti,
assisted by rrlends of other than
Italian nationality.
Indeed, says the Messaggero. sub
scriptions were raised and supported
by the left French newspapers for
what was called a "liberty loan." the
object being to rid IWly of Mussolini
and fasclsmo.
. The paper declares the Italian gov
ernment protested to France against
permitting such journalistic support
of what Italy looked upon as a sub
' verslve contract.
Plot In Paris.
According to the Messaggnro's ac
count there existed first, an organi
zation of Information bureaus in Paris
for the dissemination of anti-Italian
reports throughout Frnnce and else
where: second, an organization of
military bands ready to attempt a
coup ut an opportune moment : and
third, an organization for gathering
funds with which to carry out the
plan against the fascist regime. (Sen
einl Cupello, the paper alleges, was
the connecting link between the or
ganisations In Ports ond the circles
opposing the government In Italy.
The rifle with which Zntilhnni was
armed when arrested wns an Austrian
military weapon similar to those
which picked riflemen used for sharu
shoollng during the world war. It
wns equipped with telescopic sights.
f Continued on page s1
A STAR IN
NEW YORK, Nov. C (A. P.) A
waif who was spanked In Methodist
parsonage because she danced and
bemuse she did not study music, has
risen to" operntlc stardom. When
Mary Lewis wns a girl in Lltlle Rock.
Ark., her foster father. a Methodist
minister, used to spank her to make
her study music. Today nt 25 "he has
n contract to slno.wlth the Metropoli
tan Opera company. She will make
her debut later In the reason. ,
When Mary Lewis was little, her
fnter mother used to punish her
when she caught the child dunclni.
l!ut Mary Lewis today says she J"t
Man Arrested for
'. Serving Liquor to
School Children
IjOS ANGELES. Cnl.. Nov. ft.
i (A. P.) School board lnveatiga-
tors today reported a "stream of
Intoxicated children Btnggerliig to
school" and a short time later
police officers arrested Vlaha
Dedo on a charge of Belling liquor 4
to minors. Two GO-gallon barrels
of wine were seized.
Teachers reported to school
investigators that some of the
children had appeared in classes
undor the Influence or liquor.
Ed Richards of Los Angeles
Caught in Siskiyous When
Car Is Wrecked 21 Cases
of Scotch Whiskey and New
Packard Car Seized.
A now larts'nrd six touring car
loaded with 21 cases of Scotch whis
key, bound from Los Anseles to
northern points, was seized last night
when Constable George McXabb of
Ashland and State Special,- Officer
T. A. Talent arrested ltn driver "Kd"
Richards of Ios Angeles, on the
Pacific highway in the Siskiyou
mountains last evening at about six
o'clock. The car was In tho ditch
and the driver was attempting to
cache the liquor at the time of the
officers' arrival. Richards'- wife and
child are said to have been ,wlth
him, but had disappeared when the
officers arrived. Uichards 1m to have
n preliminary hearing today.
According to the district attorney's
office, under whose direction the
officers were working, tho officers
t were watching for this carload, hav-
ing received Information that it was
headed north. The men were sta
tioned at the junction of the Pa-
clfic highway and the Ashland-
Klamath Kalis road, while Uichards.
because of wet pavement, ran into a
ditch some distance up the moun
tain, smashing his car quite badly.
When the officers arrived on the
scene, the man was in the act of
unloading the contraband. . His wife
and child were not In evidence, they
having. It Is believed, been picked
up by some northbound motorist.
Uichards made no resistance when
tin? officers placed him urfder arrest.
A queer Incident of the evening
occurred when Phil II. Taylor, u
traveling salesman of Salem, driv
ing a 1 lodge coupe, accompanied by
Wesley Worden of Seattle, Vn com
menced skifldlng on the wet pave
ment a short distance behind thr
ditched Packard and as a result
struck the rear of that car quite
forcibly. Iloth cars were damaged
and hi addition Worden suffered a
broken leg while Taylor was unhurt.
The injured man was taken to the
Community hospital at Ashland.
Yesterday's arrest involves the
third rum running case this week.
I Officer Talent was one -of the ar
resting officers In each case,
THEN SUICIDES
MILL CITY. Ore., Nov. . Within
about 11 minutes after he had signed
a confession admitting that he hod
heen appropriating funds of the Ham
mond Lumber company's store over
a period of approximately 20 months,
I). L. tlniley, a clerk In the store, was
fouml dead here yesterday from a
gunshot wound. His death Is attrib
uted to suicide.
N. Y. GRAND OPERA
couldn't help dancing, and plroutted
in her room without music when no
one was looking. Then, when she
was sixteen, she ran away with
vaudeville csmpnny which stranded
when It got to California. She became
a moving picture bathing beauty. The
next step was the Oreenwich Village
Kollles In New'Vnrk, then Ziegfelds
Knllle.
I One dny In 1920 she heard (leral
dlne Karrar sing Madame Butterfly
'at the Metropolitan. It was the fiftf
time she had ever hnl opn and
decided she would sin? It too. Three
yearn later "he was singing opera In
Europe,
ANOTHER CALIF.
BOOTLEGGER IS
ARRESTED HERE
TRUCK LOAD
RULING 10
BE FOUGHT
State Highway Commission Is
Sued By Oregon .Truck. As
sociation Plaintiffs. . Chat-,
lenge. Right of Commission
to Regulate Loads May
Carry Case to U. S. Sup. Ct.
SALEM. Ore.. .Nov. , G.-7-Certain
truck drivers in Oregon, claiming to
represent the Auto-Freight Transpor
tation association, with George W.
Bishop as president and Oscar W.'
Horn as secretary, have sued the wtate
highway commission, challenging Us
right to limit the .weight of loads
moved over the state highways.
The legislature fied the maximum
weight of loads. Including truck and
load, permitted uppn the public high
ways at 22.000 pounds, and further
provided whenever in the judgment
of the highway commission with re
spect to state highways, or the coun
ty courts with respect to county high
ways. It is necessary in order to pro
tect the highways from undue dam
age the highway commission or the
county court, as the cose might he,
might further reduce the load limit. 1
Recently the highway commission
reduced the load limit permitted ' upon 1
that portion of the Columbia river!
highway lying between the east boun
dary of Multnomah county and the
west city .limits of Hood River. j
Suit was then brought in federal 1
court against the commission by R. I
B. Morris, doing business as Morris
and Lowther, the John Day Valley
Freight line, the Bend-Portland Tram-
sit and the - Portland-Hood River
Truck Line company, challenging the
right of the highway commission to
njaKe. such order, x , nvj
Case Set for, Nov. 8
The case has been set for hearing
before two federal judges and one
United States circuit Judge for No
vember 26.
The plaintiffs claim that if they are
unsuccessful In the federal court the
matter will be taken to the United
States court for final determination.
The plaintiffs claim that when the
federal government enacted the fed
eral aid act by which the federal gov
ernment aids the states, under certain
conditions. In the construction of
roads, and the state by legislation
agreed to co-operate with the federal
government, that thereby a contract
was entered into between the state
and the government and thut when
the state enacted legislation regulat
ing motor vehicles and providing for
a license and a license fee that a con
tract was effected between the holder
of such license nnd the state and that
now the state Is under obligation to
alntain Its public highways for the
benefit of traffic and that the legis
lature and the highway commission
are now without authority to change
its legislation or limit the weight of
loads permitted upon Its high ways. ...
Confiscation Claimed .
The plaintlfrs claim that in view of
the legislation between the federal
government and the state, they pur
chased their equipment and that un
less they are permitted to use the
equipment to the limit of its capacity
they will be damaged In their busi
ness, and that their property will be
confiscated without due process of
law.
The highway commission claims
however, that many of the truck op
erators including some of the plain
tiffs, entered business and acquired
their equipment since the enactment
of the present legislation which plain
tlfrs .now challenge. .
Regardless of the damn go which
may he done to the highways hy truck
or other traffic, the plulntiffs contend
that the state Is under obligation to
hulld a highway adequate for the
needs of present and future traffic
and to maintain those highways suit
able for such traffic as the plaintiffs
nnd others may desire to move over
the highways.
Claim No Com met Involved
On the other hand the highway
commission takes the position that no
cuntract exists between the federal
government and the state or the state
and the plaintiffs, hy which the state
is under, any obligation to maintain
the highways for the plaintiffs and to
restore the damage which plaintiffs
activities may cause. --
it Is the contention of the commis
sion that the publlo highways are for
the use of the general public and are
not to he constructed and maintained
for the special use and convenience 1
of anv nnecial clasit.
The records disclose, that the por-
tlon of the Columbia river highway In
controversy cost for original construc
tion, not including rtftht of way, the
approximate sum of 91,230,000, and
that the state has expended for main
tenancy and betterments on It since
Its completion in 1920, the sum of
$209, 159, or $9460 per mile.
Injured hy Iog
Kt'GK.VK. Ore.. Nov. . Hit by a
log nnd tossed fur forty feet through
the Sir. Wlltnm V. Malice, 44, wu
Injured, psrnnps totally at wendivg
.strrday,
U.S. Millionaire and Hotel Maid
Circle the World on Honeymoon
.vvv Ifugfi M. Annat, Scotch-American muUi-niillionaire, and hit
hridV, Hetty Dunlop, until recently a hotel maid in Scotland, ro
touring the world before going to Miami, Ma., to live Caught in
a storm. Annat took refuge in the hotel in which Miss Dunlop was
employed." He was so impressed hy her kindness that a proposal'
.resulted. They are shown after the wedding.
OREGON LEADS
IN SHEEP AND
PIG DIVISIONS
PORTLAND, Ore.; Nov. 6.- (A. P.)
Oregon exhibitors were among the
winners in the sheep, goats and swine
divisions of the Pacific International
Livestock exposition it was announced
today.
Completion of the- swine judging
gave Cass 'Nichols of Salem all the
championships and nearly a clean
sweep in other prizes In the Chester
White breed, while the Berkshire
prizes went mostly to Reich brothers
of McCleay, Ore.
Doerfler of HUverton. had the se
nior and grand champion duroc Jer
sey boar; H. C. Compton of Boring the
Junior champion boar; K. C. Bidder
of Kherwood. senior and grand cham
pion sow and L. H. Berry Of Portland,
Junior champion sow.
K. F. Hubbard of Corvallis won the
championship on rams and ewes In
the border Leicester class and the re
serve rhamplon ewe In Oxfords.
William Rlddell of Monmouth took
the reserve championship in rams In
this class and McCales brothers of
Monmouth hod the champion ewe.
Hidden also took all the Lincoln
championships excepting the reserve
champion eye which was awarded to
Harry O. Crandall of Cnss City, Mich.
. F. A. Doerfler of HUverton took the
ram championships In Hh-opshlreM.
and Floyd T. Fox of Sllverton took
the ewe championships. Fox also
carried awrty many prizes In the Ox
for dctass, including the ram cham
pionship. C. P. Kizer of Ifarrlsburg had the
championship ewe and reserve rham
plon ram In this class.
Wall Street Report
NEW YORK. Nov. 6. (A. P.)
Soaring to a record high price for all
time above 137, United States Steel
commoi today led another broad tip
ward movement In the stock market
which was marked by a frenzied dem
onstration of buying In the final hour
of trading. The previous record of
1.16H4 for On ted States Stou was'
established during the war time boom
of 1917.
NEW. YORK. Nov. 8. (A. P.)
Htork prices forged upwnrd today In
the face of an unusual volume of
profit-taking and bear selling. Bull-
drastic-cuts in taxes proposed by the"" ""'Hlor, a former pool hall owner,
house, ways and means . committee.
Dul'ont sonred 22 points tn u hew
high record ut 270. Other high priced
Industrial issues also developed ex
treme buoyancy, particularly General
Electric. I'nlled States Cast Iron Pipe,
Coca Cola and Brooklyn Kdlsun,
which were run up five to ten points.
General Motors pushed forward to
124 H while fnlteil Hintes Cast Iron
Pipesiiared ten points und Federal
Mining eleven.
After Its spectaculnr flight to 270
DuPont reacted 26s under a wave
of profit taking. Hales approximated
2,750,000 share.
The Muff lot Knock
niO JANEIKO The health of
John Weeks has been much Improved
by his voyage from New York. -
SLAIN GIRL HAD
NO SOUL C
AIMS
L
MURDEROEFENSE
LITTLETON, Cplo., Nov. 8. (A. P.)
Joel Stone, state's prosecutor In the
trlnl of Dr. Harold Elmer lllazcr, ac-,
cuseU of murdering his "child woman"
daughter, Hazel, said today he would I
resist any attempts that may be made (
by defense counsel to prove the Vic-1
tlni had no soul.
"Hazel lllazer may not have been
able to talk or walk, but who is there
tn snv thnt she could not feel?" he
he
asked. '
Prosecutor Stone nnnounced that
the state would "show that this
woman was fully developed aoove the
torBO."
"Below the waist she was as an
infant but a few months old," he said,
"Her affliction was the result ol spinal
meningitis. Medical authorities will
show that this disease often destroys
and distorts the human frame but It
does Hot destroy the brain nor the
soul.
The killing of Hazel Ulazer was a
deliberate, well planned murder." .
LITTLETON, Colo., Nov. 6. (A. P.)
A Jury to try Dr. Harold Elmer Voted .fore completion of his federal In excess of 310,000. The scale up to
lllazor on a charge of murdering his term. Ho added I hat nn unpen I to lllc 2"- I"'1' ce'it maximum on the
44 year-old daughter, Hazel, the "child t)9 unied mates supreme court was amount of Income in excess of $100,
womnn." was obtained in district iiipiv if necessary rhatnuikii was 000 is tn be worked out.
court here shortly after noon today,
The defense accepted the Jury while
it still hud one peremptory challenge
unused. The state had used only ten
of Its allotted 16.
A sharp skirmish followed tho at
tempt of the state to challenge A. A.
Hensel for cause.
Hcnsul said In reply to a question
hy tho prosecuting attorney - that
"Inking human life under cortnln cir
cumstances was all right."
The state challenged llensel three
times for cause but was overruled
cuch. time by the jul-;n, Samuel
Johnson.
Tho slate's ninth peremptory chal
lenge wns employed to remove Hen
sel. The selection of the 12 men to
try tho aged physician who slew his
daughter "the human husk' came
with startling suddenness.
"We are satisfied with the Jury,'
Joe mono, suite s p osecmor sum.
11 ' xi""- i"
Mowery, defense chief counsel said,
"although, of course, we would have
preferred to have had more time and
moni'V to Investigate some of the
panel lists.'
The Jury that will try Blazer con
sists of four farmers, two carpenters,
one lumber dealer, a garage owner,
iiniKKiKi mm u uuiinKr.
All hut two are married nnd six of
the men are fnthers.
Prominent Portland
Men Visit Baker Mine
BAKER, Ore., Nov. ft. A party of
Portland men arrived here today In
a snecall car to Insneet the Conner
mines near Baker. They were guests
of William Pullman, Uakcr banker Harry Bowers, reported here yes
and stockman. After visiting the terday to havo heen missing from
mines this afternoon they planned to Portland since October 29, left Seward
leave for Portlnnd tonight. I the October 10 on the steamer Ytjton
rarty were J. P. tj llrlen. Phil Met-
schun. Edgar B. Piper, AiBur Spencer
aud C. C. Colt. 9
Mrs. Susanne Carter
Slated for Office
State Association
HEND, Ore.. Nov. 6. Susanne
Carter. Jackson count) superiu-
tendent of schools, wan endorsed r
for election as vice-president of
the Oregon State Teachers' asso-
tiatloti by the Deschutes County
Teachers' association last night.
Hecommeudatlons for position
on the executive hoard of tho
state association by the local !
organization were V. S. Hall of
Portland and Nellie Tlftt of Bend.
LOSES
LIFE.
Notorious Train Robber and
Convicted Murderer, Sen
tenced to Hang December 3
Lawyers to Carry Fight
to U. S. Supreme Court-
BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Nov. 6. (A.
P.) Gerald chapman sits In his cell
in In the state prison at Wethersfleld
today knowing that presumably he
has less than a month to live.
The notorious mnll robber and con
victed slayer has lost his fight for u
new trial. The state uupreme court
of errors decided against him yester
day, sustaining the verdict of the low
er court, which found him guilty of
the murder of Patrolman James Bkel-
ly of New Britain on October 12, 1024.
rh,mn,0 .- uanlBnnn-.i rt i.D hnnt-
rt n. ot Tuna hi i ,i ,. ...
I prlevo by Governor Trumbull when an
.appeal was -flll..--He now.must flay -
jtho death penalty on the morning of
December S. unless proceedings onnt-
tomplatcd by his counsel-succeed.
When notified by the prison war-
den at Wethersfleld that the nunreme
court had ruled against him, Chap
man's comment was:
'"Twns no more, than I expected."
: The supreme court concluded there
was no error In his trial.
Chapman . has lost his legal battle
for life a few days after the kllllna;
' hv a iieienivx in Mimitp.nn Minh nt
I
1 nin companion In crime, "Dutch" An-
I ..n.. . n..ui .
blank sheen nf a noble fninllv. .'!
Chapinnn has not been Informed of
Anderson's death.
i
NEW YOK1C, Nov. 0. (A. p.)
Doubt that Gerald Chapman would
hans wns exuressed todnv by Fred-
crlch J. Orochl, who was the bnndlt's
iounsel at his trlul for killing a Now
Britain, Conn., policeman.
ii, oroel suid that efforts would be
nunle In the fedorul court at Hartford
to have C'hapmnn returned to the At-
lnnta penitentiary to complete his 25
year sentence for'New York robbery.
Mr. Gniehl expressed the belief that
Chanmnn could not lie leimllv exe-
taken to Connecticut from Atlanta by
special arrangement.
T IS
GLAD TO MISS NOOSE,
CHICAGO Nov.
Campbell McCarthy
(A. P.)
negro, who
w to have been hanged this mom
inir. was not entirely filled with
I happiness when ho received word
stay of execution while his case is
tnken to the supreme court.
mats nugniy tine. ne miii
when the news reached him. Then
his face soberlnir. he milled: "But.
. rltn . i wuni lo stay hero 'In the
; death cell until l get the chicken
dinner they bring lo all condemned
men,
Ills plea wns granted nnd In tho
death cell he ate whnt was to have
been his last meal,, 1
CHAPMAN
FIGHT FOR
BUT NOT H P
ALASKAN WITH $15,000 IN CASH :
LOST ENROUTE TO GRANTS PASS
I 8EWAMD, Alaska, Nov. 8. (A.eP.)
cnrouie to Portland and Ios Angeles.
A Bowers had Indicated that lie intent
Tto lo Tla Junna.
101 TDK
PUBLICITY1S
RULED OUT
House Committee Also Re-'
peals Gift Tax and Reduces
Inheritance Tax Rate From
40 to 20 Per Cent Earned
Income Reductions Applied
to Incomes Up to $20,000.
WASHINGTON. Nov. C (A. P.)
The effect of the proposed new In
come tax schedules approved today
by the house ways and means com
mittee is shown In the following table
prepared by Joseph I. McCoy, the gov
ernment actual. The figures are bes
ed on the Income of a married man
with two dependents:
Gross Present .
Income. Tax.
3.08 3.00
Proposed
Tax
4.00 10.00
4.500
18.00
1.60
. 30.39
41.02
60.76
85.76
6.000
6,000
7.000
8.000
25.60
40.00
65.00
81.00
9.000 111.00
10.000. 141.00
I WASHINGTON, Nov. . (A. P.)
j Reduction 'of the Inheritance tax rate
and repeal of the gift tax and public
ity of Income tax returns, were voted
by the house ways and means com
mittee in its consideration ot a1 new
revenue bill. The maxtmum inheri
tance tux rate was cut from forty per
cent to twenty per cent. ' ' -
The committee also decided to In
crease from twenty-five to eighty per
cent the credit allowed in payment of
the .federal inheritance tax (or
amounts paid on similar state levies,
While deciding to prohibit further
publication of income tax payments
by InUlvlduals the goinmUtw voted tor,
ret"ln Provllom, ' Pnt law
I "uthorhslng puhlloatlon-ot the .names
ann ""oresses 01 income tax payers
lon" opening the returns to Inspection
r tne nouM way" na means Cm-
mlttee, senate finance committee or
any Bpeclal committee ' appointed by
congress for thnt purpose.
WASHINGTON, Nov, . (A. P.)
The limit on which the 25 per cent
deduction tax for earned incomes may
be made 'by taxpayers was raised to-
i ,ay lly 1,10 house wa)is and mean
'committee from incomes of 310.000
to Incomes of 320,000. The commlt-
tee whlch ' framing a new tax bill.
i rejected proposals to repeal the capW
ital stock tax a.nd modify the corpora-1
j "on levy of 12 V4 per cent. j
! suggestions mat more corporations
1 be allowed to file as partners and'
.that partners In some Instances be
j allowed to file returns as corporations
were turned over to a sub-committee,
Hv extending the limit to which the
earned Income credit may be applied
; waH estimated taxpayers would be
: saved $7,000,000 annually,
The committee voted also to maka
!e. graduated surtax rates begin at
one per cent on the amount of Income
i Under revised estimates, Chairman
Green figured that tho changes no far
votpd hy tho committee would result
In a Iohh of revenue &rekat.n
llOfi.fmo.ooo annually.
IN BEAUTY HOSPITAL
LOS ANGELES, Nov. . (A. P.)
Friends of Miss Louise E.' 8chatten-1
klrcher, wealthy property owner of
Los Angeles and Brooklyn, - were so
worried over her mysterious dlsap
pcarunce that yesterday they revealed
'", ,Z .LZl."ui-
absent from her home for three weeks
and great was the hue and cry ot ,
newspaper Headlines. Today the
niyjtl,ry collmneil ltli the dlicovwy
of tn8 mmirA woman In a beauty
-.,ni,nin,
nHHIirnit tint Mlua RnhnllcnldMha UmA
n0 desire to worry-her friends but
had prepared to undergo facial treat-
menta In a quiet placs where she
would not .be disturbed by callers
until the alteration 111 her appearance
was completed.
Before leaving 8eward he declared
that he would return from the south .
to Grants Pasa) Ore., where be would
purchase a stock raising ranch. He
had been In the barber business In
Seward for two yenjja.
When Bowers left Portland he wig ,
so to have bad flCjOOO with him.
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